Ejaculation during Sleep – a Cause for Alarm?

22.08.2010 | By: A. B.

Orgasms during sleep are experienced by teenagers as well as older men. Why?

Ejaculation during sleep, also generally called wet dreams, is most typical of teenagers. (Photoxpress)

Ejaculation during sleep in adolescence

When children start developing into sexually mature beings, they often have the so-called sexual or wet dreams, which are caused by experiences during the day. For instance, erotic scenes from a movie, a pretty school friend, maybe a famous movie star or singer and reading of erotic magazines. This largely happens to teenagers who don’t have regular sexual relations or to virgins who don’t masturbate regularly enough. Ejaculation during sleep is a completely natural teenage occurrence that happens more often to some boys and less often to others. Or as explained in one of the lexicons: “Various fears in connection with ejaculation during sleep are completely unnecessary.” Ejaculation during sleep begins approximately at the age of 14. Some boys experience it a little bit earlier and others a little bit later, while some boys never experience it all. There are no rules and none of the possibilities is problematic.

What are wet dreams?

These are dreams in which a man imagines his sexual wishes very clearly and in various scenes, events and experiences. When he is awake, he pushes them into his subconscious mind. Or as said in the aforementioned lexicon: “We push all the sexual requests of which we’re ashamed and frightened into our subconscious mind. They appear genuine and in a very clear form in our dreams. This depends on how much a person is trying to suppress them.” Good old Sigmund Freud, who linked almost every dream with sexuality, would have a lot to say about that. Especially if it concerns the so-called concealed dreams that contain various sexual symbols. For example, the female genitals usually appear in the form of a vase, box, room and garden, and the male genitals appear in the form of a dagger, sceptre and sometimes a snake. Sexual union is illustrated with a plane or car ride. And as written in the lexicon: “The interpretation of concealed sexual dreams contributes greatly to exploring your own and other people’s sexuality.”

Ejaculation during sleep is also experienced by mature men

This often involves men who satisfy their sexual needs irregularly and it can also show signs of subconscious satisfaction of a sexual wish an individual is afraid of or unable to satisfy in his real life. Especially if it involves a type of sexual deviation that isn’t really accepted in society and is part of an individual’s life one way or the other. Men can have dreams about sexual abnormality, perversion and the satisfaction of their sex drive in an unusual, and for an average person, strange, unimaginable and extremely unacceptable way, that is, the desires men can only realize during their sleep. However, things aren’t always so extreme. An adult person can also have just ordinary erotic dreams, triggered by a stimulus during the day. Or as written in the lexicon: “Ejaculation during sleep is actually subconscious masturbation that doesn’t affect the man’s sexual power when awake. Many men also said that ejaculation in their sleep had no effect on sexual activity that day despite ejaculating their semen, which means they didn’t have any problems with immediate erection and potential fatigue. Maybe we could even say that an orgasm during sleep has no effect on an orgasm when awake, even though there would be a little time difference between them. Ejaculation during sleep therefore gives no cause for alarm.